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# נְבִיא

Biblical Aramaic

**prophet** — used 4 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

prophet [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d1_5b4_5d9_5d0/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְבִיא: n.m. prophet [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d1_5b4_5d9_5d0/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. prophet (Hebraism? also 𝔗 Syriac; v. BH);—emph. נְבִיאָה Kt, נְבִיָּא Ezr 5:1; 6:14; pl. emph. נְבִיאַיָּא 5:1, 2.\*

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the (4).

## In the verses

[Ezra 5:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.1/#tree)

וְהִתְנַבִּ֞י חַגַּ֣י נְבִיָּ֗א וּזְכַרְיָ֤ה בַר־עִדּוֹא֙ נְבִיַּיָּ֔א עַל־יְה֣וּדָיֵ֔א דִּ֥י בִיה֖וּד וּבִירוּשְׁלֶ֑ם בְּשֻׁ֛ם אֱלָ֥הּ יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל עֲלֵיהֽוֹן׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.prophesied Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the.son of.Iddo the prophets to the Jews who \[were\].in Judah and in Jerusalem in the.name of.the.God of.Israel \[who was\].over.them

*JPS 1917:* Now the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem; in the name of the God of Israel prophesied they unto them.

[Ezra 5:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.5.2/#tree)

בֵּאדַ֡יִן קָ֠מוּ זְרֻבָּבֶ֤ל בַּר־שְׁאַלְתִּיאֵל֙ וְיֵשׁ֣וּעַ בַּר־יֽוֹצָדָ֔ק וְשָׁרִ֣יו לְמִבְנֵ֔א בֵּ֥ית אֱלָהָ֖א דִּ֣י בִירֽוּשְׁלֶ֑ם וְעִמְּה֛וֹן נְבִיַּיָּ֥א דִֽי־אֱלָהָ֖א מְסָעֲדִ֥ין לְהֽוֹן׃פ

*Word for word:* then they.arose Zerubbabel the.son of.Shealtiel and Jeshua the.son of.Jozadak and they.began to build the.house of.(the) God which \[is\].in Jerusalem and.\[were\] with them the prophets (diy).of (the) God supporting (et) them

*JPS 1917:* Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets of God, helping them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d1_5b4_5d9_5d0.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d1_5b4_5d9_5d0/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).